Fire Damages Apartments

Cause Investigated

October 29, 2002|The Morning Call

PHILLIPSBURG

No one was hurt in an early morning mattress fire that damaged two units of Village Apartments in the 5000 block of Marshall Street, Phillipsburg.

Phillipsburg police and the Warren County prosecutor are investigating the cause of the blaze, which was reported at 2:58 a.m. Monday by Brenda Dilts, the resident of the apartment where the fire started, police said.

Firefighters evacuated nearby units until the fire was put out.

Dilts reported the fire by calling from a neighbor's apartment. Dilts' apartment, Unit 120, had fire damage, and Unit 119 was damaged by smoke and water.